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And one year later half of it breaks because of a Gnome update. Maybe you should have followed up the specific repo that warned that you needed to move to this new extension, or maybe it just went silent without explanation. Something like that.
And because Gnome still lets every extension monkey-patch code right into the shell your whole desktop may crashes in the middle of your work. Especially if the extension devs aren't monitoring changes in Gnome 24/7.
Happened to me 3 times before I moved to KDE. Which I very much dislike in comparison, but it's just way more stable. Couldn't go without extensions in Gnome either because of the very smooth-brained decision to replace the tray icons with their own backend, so any app not supporting their way of doing it either disappears into the void or has their tray icon submenu inaccessible.
Ugh. I love the UI/UX of Gnome, but in terms of stability and compatibility they screwed up phenomenally.
I feel like it would be easier for everyone that Gnome team made a more stable way for extensions to interact and change the system, but that goes against their philosophy and unified vision. Gnome seems to despice the extensions that so many of their users think are required for sensible use of Gnome desktop.
Despite being told they actively decided against such an API I of course was still hit with the "just build it yourself and make a PR" line. Yeah, sure, who doesn't want to waste dozens to hundred of hours for an already rejected concept?
That's the same people who brought us libadwaita, which is in fact so well known for developer freedom that Linux Mint saw it as a necessity to fork it into libadapta to reintroduce more freedom.
God I'm so annoyed by this. Gnome's organisational structure screws the whole desktop. At least that's something they're partially aware ofβ¦
That's why if you use a lot of extensions you don't run rolling release and don't update to your distros new version instantly
Edit: Because if you move fast, things are gonna break